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Susanne Bier and Tom Hiddleston in The Night Manager (2016)

Benicio Del Toro and Susanne Bier in Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

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Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen in Open Hearts (2002)

Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Michael Beach, Susanne Bier, Donna Lynne Champlin, Mia Isaac, Ishaan Khatter, Eve Hewson, Ishaan Khatter, Meghann Fahy, and Sam Nivola at an event for The Perfect Couple (2024)

Susanne Bier and Trevante Rhodes at an event for Bird Box (2018)

Susanne Bier at an event for The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards (2016)

Susanne Bier and Tom Hiddleston at an event for The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards (2016)

Susanne Bier, Jennifer Lawrence, and Clare Stewart at an event for Serena (2014)

Susanne Bier and Jennifer Lawrence at an event for Serena (2014)

Susanne Bier and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau at an event for A Second Chance (2014)

Helen Mirren, Susanne Bier, and Russell Brand

Susanne Bier, Rachid Bouchareb, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Denis Villeneuve

Halle Berry, Susanne Bier, Alison Lohman, and Alexis Llewellyn at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Susanne Bier, Alexis Llewellyn, and Micah Berry at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Susanne Bier and Paula Newsome at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Susanne Bier and Stacey Snider at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Susanne Bier at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

David Duchovny, Halle Berry, and Susanne Bier at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Sam Mendes and Susanne Bier at an event for Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

Though Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award winning writer and director Susanne Bier's work often plays out against a wide-reaching global backdrop, its focus is intimate, carefully exploring the explosive emotions and complexities of familial bonds. This unique combination is part of the formula that has made her Denmark's leading female filmmaker and a powerhouse worldwide.

Bier's 2010 film In a Better World won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011, as well as an Italian Golden Globe Award® for Best European Film and Best Director at the European Film Awards. She previously helmed the multi-award-winning After the Wedding (2006), which was also an Academy Award® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, and was remade as an English-language film in 2019 starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Billy Crudup.

Bier won an Emmy Award in 2016 for directing the six-part AMC mini-series The Night Manager, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by John le Carré, with stars Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, and Olivia Colman all winning Golden Globes for their work.

Bier followed this with the 2018 Netflix film Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock, which went on to become the most-watched film in Netflix history. In 2020, she directed the six-part HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, the network's first original series to grow its audience each week.

Prior to this, Bier co-wrote and directed the romantic comedy The One and Only (1999), which won Best Film at the Danish Robert Awards and was the most watched domestic film in Denmark in 20 years, with one-fifth of the country's population having seen it at the cinema.

In 2002, she directed Open Hearts, shot in accordance with the Dogme '95 filmmaking aesthetic. The film won numerous awards, including the Audience Award at the Robert Festival (Danish Academy Award) and the International Film Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Bier followed this with Brothers (2004), which won, among others, the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

In 2007, Bier directed the award-winning Things We Lost in the Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, her first English-language film.

In 2012, Bier made her triumphant return to the genre with the 2013 winner of the European Film Award for Best Comedy, Love Is All You Need, starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. In 2014, Bier directed A Second Chance, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Most recently, Susanne Bier directed the Showtime limited series The First Lady, starring Viola Davis, Michelle Pfieffer, and Gillian Anderson.

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